Thanks Jeff

Interesting concept, can you give me any examples of their usage, what kinds of 
data etc.?

Thanks

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Stuart Forrest PhD
Library Systems Specialist
Beaufort County Library
843 255 6450
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-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
Mixter,Jeff
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 10:20 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] rdf triplestores

A triplestore is basically a database backend for RDF triples. The major 
benefit is that it allows for SPARQL querying. You could imagine a triplestore 
as being the same thing as a relational database that can be queried with SQL.

The drawback that I have run into is that unless you have unlimited hardware, 
triplestores can run into scaling problems (when you are looking at hundreds of 
millions or billions of triples). This is a problem when you want to search for 
data. For searching I use a hybrid Elasticsearch (i.e. Lucene) index for the 
string literals and the go out to the triplestore to query for the data.

If you are looking to use a triplestore it is important to distinguish between 
search and query.

Triplestore are really good for query but not so good for search. The basic 
problem with search is that is it mostly string based and this requires a 
regular expression query in SPARQL which is expensive from a hardware 
perspective. 

There are a few triple stores that use a hybrid model. In particular Jena 
Fuseki (http://jena.apache.org/documentation/query/text-query.html)

Thanks,

Jeff Mixter
Research Support Specialist
OCLC Research
614-761-5159
[email protected]

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From: Code for Libraries <[email protected]> on behalf of Forrest, 
Stuart <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 10:00 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] rdf triplestores

Hi All

My question is what do you guys use triplestores for?

Thanks
Stuart


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Stuart Forrest PhD
Library Systems Specialist
Beaufort County Library
843 255 6450
[email protected]

http://www.beaufortcountylibrary.org

For Leisure, For Learning, For Life



-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stefano 
Bargioni
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 8:53 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] rdf triplestores

My +1 for Joseki.
sb

On 11/nov/2013, at 06.12, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:

> What is your favorite RDF triplestore?
>
> I am able to convert numerous library-related metadata formats into RDF/XML. 
> In a minimal way, I can then contribute to the Semantic Web by simply putting 
> the resulting files on an HTTP file system. But if I were to import my 
> RDF/XML into a triplestore, then I could do a lot more. Jena seems like a 
> good option. So does Openlink Virtuoso.
>
> What experience do y'all have with these tools, and do you know how to import 
> RDF/XML into them?
>
> --
> Eric Lease Morgan
>

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